ranga

name

1. A locality of Flinders Island, Tasmania, Australia.

noun

Etymology: Extracted from (o)rang(utan), with -er suffix; in use since 1990s; to a certain extent popularised by the ABC television show Summer Heights High (2007).

1. An orange-haired or red-haired person.

   “You′re looking down upon ‘rangas’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire.”

   “2010, Mungo MacCallum, Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Large Print 16pt Edition, page ii, Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country′s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can′t tell.”